Round the World

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 73, 29 April 1929, Page 2

Round the World

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

VAHI0US HAPPENINGS GABLE ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST,

Pacific Cable Board. In the Hou>e of Commons tlie Pacific Cable Board Bill ivas read the tkird timo. Barnard-Lysnar Case. The Privv Cu'incil rc-erved jndg-j meiit, iu the Barnard vcrsus Lysnar j (New Zealandj tase. A Big Strike, Sixty thousaud tvorkors at the Bom- j hay cottoii mill> ^truck in re^pon.->e to the ea ! 1 of the Communist union. Fifty 111 i 1 1 a are nnv idle. Graf Zepplin Cruise. The Time.-.' Berliu correspoiulent -tates that the Graf Zoppelin made a succe.ssful niyht lundinu: after a o? j liours We^tern IMediterraneau cruise. j Cross Channel Air Service. The Southcrn Railway Company, it is under.'-tood. lnis under con^ideiation the luauguration of a Hying; service acrovs the Euelish Channel to suppleliient. Ihe existing hoat service. Marking of Eggs. The Ministry ot Agriculture in Britain has issued an order that all imported eggs inust heiU'efovHi bear an indicatioii of the origin on the phell in letters not le--s tinui ttvp milliliietrcs in lieiglit. N.S.W. Coal Output. The Netv South AVales Miuos De■pnrtment's annual reporb states that the coal output last year decreased hy 1,(577,917 tons. The output was the lowost siiH-e 1919. IMetals ancl minerals valued at Lld.oOn.nOO tvere won. Persia Ancl Iraq. Pcrsia has aceorded rocognition to lrar| tliis devclopmont being offcially announced in a cordial message transmitted from the Persia n Prinie Ministor to the Jraq Prinie Minister, ex-jn-e.ssing a. desire that relations will be founded on strong and sincere friond.ship and coinnion interesls, and that iuattcr pciiding will be settled i>y mutual goodwill. Fruit Fly ln Fiorida, The depredations of the IMeditorranean fruit fly pest in Fiorida fruit areas, ])articularly eirtus fruits, as a resull of the introduction of the insect hv rum-runncrs carrying fruit in their ennuni.s.'-ariat, has bcen deelared a national eniergency hy the Houso of Roprosontativcs, wliich appropriated -I .dsO.noO dollars to figlit the spread of the contamination.